Pacman-shamefully addictive
I’d forgotten all about Pacman until I switched on the computer a few days to find a Pacman game staring back at me on the Google website. I played one game, it was addictive, then a couple before getting back to my work.
Pacman’s gameplay is very simple. Guide your Pacman around to eat the little pacdots to progress onto the next stage while avoiding the four monsters which causes Pacman to lose a life if caught. Eat a power pellet and Pacman can eat the monsters for a short time. Pacman can also gain bonus from eating fruit which appear for a short time in each level, and at every 10,000 an extra life is awarded to the player.
Google placed the Pacman game on its site due to Pacman turning 30 on the 21st May, being created in 1980. However on opening Google that day, productivity levels nose-dived as office workers and the like found themselves running around the maze away from the monsters. Some companies had to take action by blocking Google on their servers that day too, according to cnet, but it brought back childhood memories. I actually didn’t believe that companies would do this, until a friend of my who works for an email marketing software company said that this happened at their offices. Which actually got me thinking, how would I survive the day without google?!
I wasn’t born anywhere near the time Pacman was released, but I found it pretty addicting, but not addiciting enough to get beyond the third level. Of course the last time I heard about Pacman was in that infamous Friends episode when Phoebe buys Monica and Chandler the Ms. Pacman machine (similar to Pacman, but had a tinge of pink and one of the monsters was a lady I think). Obviously some people are hardcore fans, playing it all day and night until of course they hit a brick wall with level 256, where there is a kill screen due to a fault with the fruit sorter.
Pacman is still an addictive game today, with Google declaring that its Pacman game may be placed permentantly on its site due to its popularity.
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